Robert Hall (priest)

Robert Hall, D.D. was an Anglican priest in England during the 17th century.[1]

The son of Bishop Joseph Hall,[2] he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge[3] and Exeter College, Oxford.[4] Hall held livings at Stokeinteignhead and Clyst Hydon. He became a Canon Residentiary and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral in 1629,. He was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1633 to 1667. [5] He died on 29 May 1667.

His brother George became Bishop of Chester.[6]

References
  1. Clergy of the Church of England database
  2.  "Hall, Joseph (1574–1656)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii. Dabbs – Juxton, 1922) p288
  4. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Haak-Harman
  5. Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Cornwall . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 397–401  – via Wikisource.
  6. Bishop Hall, His Life and Times, Or, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Sufferings, of the Right Rev. Joseph Hall, D.D. (1826), Jones, Jp. 371: London, L.B. Seeley, 1826.


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